We’ve had 60 years of intellectual development in Iran. How can we have the same system?
AKBAR GANJIThe lower strata are suffering all kinds of oppression and the injustice that is inflicted upon them has many faces and many facets.
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Whatever Iranian people have bought, they have bought in the black market.
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It is not clear what they have bought, how many secondhand materials they have bought. I am very worried that something like Chernobyl will happen to Iran.
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All manners of freedom, including freedom of expression, freedom of conscious, freedom of thought…it accepts tolerance. But it is not an atheist society.
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I, too, am against the dismantlement of Iran.
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I could witness that as a result of Ahmadinejad, they lived in a dream. They believed that paradise is around the corner and that all their demands shall be met.
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Khomeini obviously had many problems, but he had one clever side to him.
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It was universal pressure on the regime to secure my release. International pressure was certainly helpful in my release.
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Would Americans accept if we decided to come here and decide who your rulers should be? So why do you expect us Iranians to accept the idea that the United States shall come in there and decide who shall govern us?
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We recognized that the justice we expected and hoped for was not about to be achieved.
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Why did the regime put me in prison in the first place? I was put in prison for six years and it has been all illegal.
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When women push their headscarf back an inch or two, this is interpreted to be a political act.
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The U.S. should start talking about disarmament, nuclear disarmament, of the region.
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Revolutions invariably don’t solve the issue of justice, and in its place, suppression and limiting freedom replaces that idea.
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We see that the ecological movement, environmentalist movement, organizes all kinds of demonstrations against these.
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Recently, we witnessed massive demonstration by Iranian woman in the 7th of Tir square, and it was brutally suppressed.
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